"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."(Robert Green Ingersoll / 1833-1899)

"Man is certainly stark mad: he cannot make a worm, yet he will make gods by the dozen."(Michel de Montaigne / 1533-1592)

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Nobody says “There are many things that we thought were natural processes, but now know that a god did them.”

Humans have always been curious. We have always had a keen desire to understand why things are as they are. What can we do collectively to get to those answers, or at least get closer? I see religion and philosophy as more closely related than religion and science. Although, religion was in charge for so long, and provided all of the "answers", I think it is obvious now that it was always wrong, and that it never really had anything but philosophical best guesses, some more accurate than others.

I watched. What occurred to me was that we might have to apply some understanding when dealing with believers. They have not cooked up the notion of god for themselves, nor is stupidity (initially) a factor. When a believer has a spiritual experience, the video shows that they are actually having an experience. This, to them, is profound evidence. We may get nowhere trying to devalue that experience. They are (for the most part, if one is to be charitable) telling the truth, or in any case, not 'lying'. when they cite those experiences as a foundation for their beliefs.

The question left unanswered by the video, and is now presented to us, is how do we break through (what appears to be nearly everyone's) natural, human inclination to believe? How can we effectively argue against the existence of god when people are hard-wired to perceive him? I don't, as yet, have any answer to offer.

An answer might lie in that we have other hard-wired inclinations; to rut, to fight, to flee and so forth, yet we bring modifying concepts to bear to control those natural responses.

Many Christian believers have access to modern knowledge that explains the laws of physics, and explains most of the non-sense written in holy books. What we need is a way to separate genuine human experiences from the BS written down thousands of years ago by the hopelessly ignorant.